It doesn’t depress me that my kids like this stuff. I now look at screen time as a fact of life. Click here for our FREE mini-course How to Be a Positive Parent. The following strategies worked.Įditor’s Note: Being able to look beyond the immediate transgressions to focus on the bigger picture is an important aspect of positive parenting. I needed a positive approach to video games, to screen time in general, a term meaning any time spent in front of a screen: games, movies, or movies of other kids playing games. Laptops, iPad, iPod, smart phones, Xbox–this stuff isn’t going anywhere. I had to face facts: the world was against me in this fight. If anything, the deprivation increased the appetite. It didn’t make the desire for video games go away. I took it hard, the day I finally admitted to myself that what most inspires my nine-year-old son is a video game.Ĭertain we were on the road to laziness, brain atrophy, and obesity, I went through a long spell of helicopter parenting: policing, nagging, and threatening. Who would sooner build worlds in Terraria than accompany you to the neighborhood barbecue? Do you live with a child obsessed with video games?Ī kid who’d rather play Minecraft than ball?
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